« All Cannot Quotes · Albert Camus's Page
Cannot Quotes by Albert Camus
- You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot…
- Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
- The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That…
- To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that…
- Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
- Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
- Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
- There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing…
- Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible,…
- Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned…
- For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
- It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
- One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
- The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every…
- We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to…
More Cannot Quotes
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt